The current State of
Israel was set up by the US, Britain and the United Nations in 1948.

The Scriptures tell us
who they are: Most people have come to incorrectly associate the term
Jew with Israel. While all Jews are Israelites, most Israelites are not
Jews. It's clear in the Scriptures, yet it is one of the greatest
misconceptions Christians have. An Israelite is a descendant of Jacob, whom
God named Israel (Gen. 32:28). Jacob (Israel) had twelve sons, of which only
one was named Judah. The term Jew is the English translation of the Hebrew Yehewdiy
means "descendant of Judah"--The
Tribe of Judah--the Ethiopian Jews are descended from Jews who accompanied
Menelik, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, from Jerusalem to
Ethiopia.

Israel included the city of Jerusalem and was named
after Judah. In fact, Judah became the name of the southern kingdom when
Israel divided into two kingdoms about 2900 years ago. The ancestry of
Joseph is traced back to Judah. So is the ancestry of King David in Jacob's
blessing of his 12 sons. In Genesis 49, he described Judah as a lion cub,
saying that he would have his hand on the necks of his enemies, and he
would be praised by his brothers. Jacob's blessing of Judah, in Genesis
49:8-12, includes a passage that is traditionally understood by Christians
to mean that Judah's descendants would rule over the land of Israel,
culminating with Jesus.

When the word "Jew" was first introduced
into the English language in the 18th century, its one and only implication,
inference, and innuendo was "Judean."During the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, a
well-organized and well-financed international "pressure group" created a
so-called "secondary meaning" for the word "Jew" among the English speaking
peoples of the world and is a misrepresentation.

In the Bible the word "Jew" means a resident
of the land of Judaea regardless of tribe,
race or religion just as an Australian or Englishman may be
Chinese, Negro, or Eskimo or perhaps a member of the Tribe of Judah (Judahite).
It means nationality or the country in which you were born.

Today most people think of Jews as the
people of Israel, but that is not correct. An Israelite was one who
descended from Jacob. In Jesus' time individual Jews may or may not have
descended from Jacob, but they all recognized Pharisaism--Follows the
teaching of the Pharisees and not
attributed to
the Law of Moses.

There is not now nor was there ever an
equivalent letter "j" in the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Nor is there
any Hebrew letter that carries even an approximate sound of the consonant
letter "j." Neither is there a letter 'j' in the Greek alphabet. As regards
proof of the letter 'J' not being in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek alphabets,
James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance has the Hebrew and Greek alphabet
preceding each respective dictionary therein. Also, there are various
grammars, etc., which show the alphabet of these languages, and there is no
letter equivalent to "J" in either Hebrew or Greek even today. "J," the
tenth letter and seventh consonant in the English alphabet, is the latest
addition to English script and has been inserted in the alphabet after "I,"
from which it was developed. Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is credited as the
first to distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds. Not until the
middle of the 17thcentury did the use of "j" as an initial become universal
in English books.

(The word Jew was coined by Nebuchadnezzar's
troops as an abbreviation of the word "Judean." A Jew or Judean is one who
is a resident of Judea regardless of his religion, race, or nationality. Every resident of
Palestine is a Jew. The so-called
Jews living abroad are Jews neither by residence nor by birth nor by
religion.

Christians believe the Jewish
homeland was given to the Jews in perpetuity by God Himself. The Bible says
that whoever blesses Jewish people shall be blessed and whoever curses them
shall be cursed. The original Israel of the Bible was encompassed up
to Egypt and through Syria and part of Iraq. That is what the Middle East
dispute is about. That is why the Arab world is rebelling.

The Tribe of Judah--the Ethiopian Jews are descended
from Jews who accompanied Menelik, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of
Sheba, from Jerusalem to Ethiopia. More scientific theories place the
Falasha in the Agau family of tribes. Isaiah 11:11 strongly implies that
there was an established Ethiopian Jewish community in the days of that
prophet, approximately 740 BC. European Jews and others in different
parts of the world were barely aware of the Falasha for many years.
The Falasha thought they were the only remaining Jews. They continued to
follow Judaism as it was practiced before the destruction of the Temple in
Jerusalem. Most Westerners and Protestant churchmen learned of the
existence of the Ethiopian Jews from James Bruce's five-volume work,
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, published in Edinburgh in
1790.

The Garden of Eden was
located in the Tigris-Euphrates Region of Africa. Ham had
four sons, and his sons are the people of the African Continent--the Ancient
Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalia's, Canaanites. Genesis Chapter 50 Verses
7-11, scripture describes ALL the Hebrews as looking like the ancient
Egyptians.

Genesis 2:10 – “And a River went
out of Eden to water the Garden; and from thence it was parted and became
four heads.”

Genesis
2:13 – “And the name of the
second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the whole Land of
Ethiopia.” Rishon and Gihon are located in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.

Genesis 2: 11-13, The Pishon and
Gihon Rivers mentioned in this verse talk about the wind turning
through the Land of Havilah, somewhere in the Persian Gulf. Today the names
of the rivers are the Great Zab (South of Nineveh), and the Little Zab; the
Diyala River flows into the Tigris at Baghdad, Iraq.

There were two Ethiopian
nations in ancient times--Eastern and Western Ethiopia. There was an
Ethiopian civilization in Southern Mesopotamia (Babylon), and the Ethiopian
Tribes called themselves Babylonians.

Genesis 10:8 - “Cush begat
Nimrod. The word Cush means Ethiopia. Cush is the father of Ethiopians.
Nimrod ruled over the cities of Babylon, Erech, Accad (Akkad). The cities
are situation in the Land of Shinar (Sumer).

In Genesis 11:26-26 Abraham was
one of the fathers of the 12 tribes of Israel. Abraham’s father (Terah)
came from the Land of Ur or the Chaldees. The
Chaldeans are a Cushite Tribe. The
Sumerians/ Ethiopians/ Mesopotamians (Elamites) settled from Mesopotamia to
Europe. Currently this area now includes: Southern Iran, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, and Northwest India.

Webster’s Dictionary
(Gazetteer Section, p. 849) defines Sumerian as: The pre-Semitic population
of the Lower Euphrates Valley. Sumer preceded Babylonia. The dictionary
says there is a blood relationship between Dravidian Tribes of India and
Ethiopian Sumerians (Elamites). Archeologists
have found skeletons of the ancient Dravidian and Nedda types in Ur and
Kish. Examples of Negrito types below:
From http://andaman.org

Yemeni Negritoid

"Arab" man
(1950's)

Negrito of the Great

Andaman group
(1890s)

Yemeni Veddoid Man

Vedda from Sri Lanka (1890s)

Andamanese Negrito

of the
Jarawa group (1960s)

Black Hebrew Facts – Jews exist throughout Africa. (Do you
believe those Jews who fled
to Europe converted the African Jews left behind before Hitler went on his rampage)?

Black Jews of Dahomey -
(Benin)

Black Hebrews of Egypt
and Ethiopia - Ethiopian Jews are
better known the world over as Falasha, a Ge'ez (ancient
Ethiopic) term meaning "stranger" or "exile."

Tabiban Kamant &
Wasambara Jews

Jews of Malagasy
Republic

North African Black
Jews

Black Jewish Empire of
Ghana

The Moorish Empire
(Hannibal)

Black Jews of Angola

Jewish Ashantees

Yorba Jews of Nigeria

The Book of Exodus
describes a Hebrew (Jewish) presence in Egypt in the former Kingdom of Kush.

In the 9th and
10th Centuries B.C.E. Kings David and Solomon sought to expand
Hebrew (Jewish) influence and trade throughout the Mediterranean, Egypt, the
Arab Peninsula, the Horn of Africa and Persia.

The Bantu tribes of
Southern Africa (where 40,000 members of the Lemba Tribe) still claim Jewish
roots.

Jewish tribal groups in
Senegal are the descendants of the Tribe of Dan. The Ethiopian Jews can
trace their ancestry to the tribe of Dan. The trans-migrants established
communities in renowned places as Gao, Timbuktu (where UNESCO still
maintains notable archives containing records of its old Jewish community),
Bamako, Agadez, Kano and Ibadan.

Jewish tribes have
been situated in the heart of Africa since the dawn of recorded history.
Ethiopia is mentioned in the beginning of the Biblical Book of Genesis, and
there is no time in history when there were not Jews living there. From
Ethiopia, they went west and south into the heart of Africa. Other Jews also
migrated directly west from Egypt, entering Africa along the northern coast
of the continent.

Starting about
AD 300, the Kingdom of Ghana began to be ruled by a dynasty of Jewish Kings
known as the Za Dynasty. The founder of the Dynasty was a man named Za el
Yemeni, who was descended from Jews of Yemen. He established his capital
city at Gao on the Niger River, in what is now the nation of Mali.

According to the
writings of Eldad the Danite, a famous Algerian Jewish author of the ninth
century, Ghana was a Hebrew nation which followed the Law of Moses. The
people of Ghana traced their roots to Jews of the First Diaspora of 600 BC,
who were forcibly expelled from Israel by the Assyrians. In support of this,
Eldad reported that the Ghanans possessed the Torah, which was compiled
before the Diaspora, but not the Talmud, which was compiled in Jerusalem
and Babylon much later, during the early centuries of the Christian era.

In the seventh
century AD, the whole of Africa north of the Sahara desert was conquered by
the armies of Islam. Subsequently, an extremely lucrative trade system
developed with the Sub-Saharan Kingdom of Ghana. The commodities first
traded were gold and salt. This led to the appearance of regular caravan
routes across the Sahara Desert to various cities in Ghana. These cities
became wealthy.

Shortly after the year AD 1000, the Kings of Ghana converted to Islam.
Initially, the conversions were mainly for the purpose of fostering trade
with the powerful Muslim states of North Africa, and had little to do with
faith. But once Islam took root in the area, its impact grew inexorably.

The current Jewish
homeland was set up on May 14, 1948, by the UN

"What I am trying to do is make the
whole world safe for Jews," Harry Truman wrote as he wrestled over the
decision to recognize a Jewish state in Palestine. Deeply affected by the
Holocaust, Truman sympathized with Jewish aspirations for a homeland. In
November 1947 he lobbied for the U.N. resolution that divided Palestine into
Jewish and Arab states. Britain announced it would hand authority over
Palestine to the U.N. by May 14, 1948.

After the death of Solomon, Israel
was broken up into 2 kingdoms. Judah - which consisted of Benjamin, Judah
and the Levitical Priesthood (Levi). The southern kingdom was the remaining
10 tribes - they eventually scattered throughout the (world). These were
the Jews that Yahshua (Jesus) prepared his disciples to gather. They are
the Lost sheep of the House of Israel.

The modern Ashkenazim Jew--converts
(from Eastern Europe) have tried to absorb all the nations and say they are
whole again and living in Israel - but that is not true...the 10 tribes of
millions of people that are still scattered - (the U. S., the American
Indians, the Chinese, the Indian Dalits, the Ethiopians, the Jamaicans...on
and on).

The European Jew is a convert....the converts run the
Nation of Israel. They converted 1100 years ago, some may have been from
the tribe of Judah (Jews) but it is a small minority. The name Sephardim was
attributed to the Jews who were forced to leave Spain and Portugal in 1492.
Many of these settled in North Africa, other parts of Europe and the
Ottoman Empire.

Kristina Lord Comments

Genesis 15: Since I was a
young child in the church, I remember the story of Abraham. I
remember having read these very chapters and having sung the Sunday School
song about Father Abraham. "Father Abraham, had many sons, many sons
had Father Abraham, I am one of them and so are you, so let's just praise
the Lord..." But the truth did not click for me then as it did today
when I read Genesis 15 with the wealth of knowledge that I now have.

Genesis 15:13-14 from the King James Version of the Bible reads "And he
said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a
land that is not theirs and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them
four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance."

After having read this I said to myself, "I don't remember anytime in
history where 'Jews' were enslaved for four centuries. The only people
that I know of who were enslaved for four hundred years are American
blacks who were taken from Western Africa." history that says
that the blacks who are now inhabitants of North America are actually the
descendants of Abraham. God will deliver black America as he
promised Abraham.

If Jews were enslaved by the
Romans for 4 centuries as blacks were, then either 1) there is a strong
connection between today's Jews and American Blacks, 2) there was a
conversion by some Europeans to Judaism, 3) there was a mixture with some
Europeans with blacks to create white Jews with "kinky hair", or 4) some
other conclusion. The other question I have is what is the span
in years of a generation? I am referring to a generation because in
Genesis 15:16 (Kings James Version) it reads:

"But in the fourth generation they (Abraham's
descendents) shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is
not yet full." In the Contemporary English Version it reads: "Four
generations later, your descendants will return here (this bible notes that
Amorites refers to a name sometimes used of the people who lived in
Palestine before the Israelites) and take this land, because only then will
the people who live here be so sinful that they deserve to be punished."

The European Jew--A
Question of Identity!

What! European Jews?

What! European Jews?

The African Jews of the
Bible!

References

Williams, Joseph J.,
Hebrewisms of
West Africa,
New York: The Dial Press, 1930.

Windsor, Ralph R., From
Babylon to
Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews,
Atlanta, GA: Windsor Golden Series, 2003.